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I was just thinking, with the environment being such a big issue because of global warming and everything and we should be protecting the environemt and theres adverts and everything saying we should recycle i was just thinking how many of us do recylce.
Im proud to say that i do, and i recylce paper and plastic bottles.
My Mum deals with the recycling in our house as the only separate bins we have are outisde.
lol Do you have 3 different coloured bins, balck, green and grey/silver?
di marco
07-11-2006, 21:55
yep we do at home, if you can recycle it we do, paper, bottles, foil, plastic etc. we have a big blue recycling box from the council which sits next to our kitchen bin and all the recycling goes in that. at my house at uni, we have a box where we put all our drinks bottles to be recycled and i keep my paper to take home to recycle with me
lol Do you have 3 different coloured bins, balck, green and grey/silver?
Yeah, we do. It gets annoying with that many bins though, because they don't come for them all weekly and they end up smelling really bad by collection day.
We have one recycling collection for all your green waste, and one for all your other recycleable things, like Cans, Bottles, Paper etc. You just stick them all in the one bin, and they take them away, so you dont have to bother with seperating them all up, which makes it a lot easier.
di marco
07-11-2006, 22:05
We have one recycling collection for all your green waste, and one for all your other recycleable things, like Cans, Bottles, Paper etc. You just stick them all in the one bin, and they take them away, so you dont have to bother with seperating them all up, which makes it a lot easier.
yeh thats what ours is like abi, we have a brown bin for garden waste and a blue box for the other recycling
Cornishbabe
07-11-2006, 22:06
I do at home we have plastic amd metal bag, glas, clothes and paoer bags. wereas at uni we dont have anything. i take my paper home though
CrazyLea
07-11-2006, 22:11
We have the usual black bin bags for general use. Then we have orange ones for paper and other stuff only. We use them.
Pinkbanana
07-11-2006, 22:24
I dont, I know I should :o We do at work though!:)
.:SpIcYsPy:.
07-11-2006, 22:42
We never really used to but mum was always into it.. we asked the people to give us a receylcing box and they didnt but after a year they did!!.. Now mum's recylcing mad :p:D
I do - although we are supposed to compost cooked and uncooked food, and i refuse to do that, especially with the maggots that appear in the brown bin because of it. So now we have cardboard only in the brown bit, glass, tin cans, juice cartons etc, seperated (otherwise they won't take them and stick nasty notes on our bins :angry: ) and then the rest in black bags for alternating collections
Xx-Vicky-xX
08-11-2006, 00:13
yep we do at home, if you can recycle it we do, paper, bottles, foil, plastic etc. we have a big blue recycling box from the council which sits next to our kitchen bin and all the recycling goes in that. at my house at uni, we have a box where we put all our drinks bottles to be recycled and i keep my paper to take home to recycle with me
Yeah we have them boxes aswell, they take nearly everything recycable in them boxes but i think there is one thing they wont, i forget what that thing is though
We do what we can- here at home we have paper, cans, glass and garden waste, but we can't recycle peelings so we are supposed to be building out own compost bin but we've not got round to it! Then we take the cardboard to my grandads, who lives in a different borough because they do cardboard and stockport don't.
i recycle anything that i can, we have a recycling bin and a normal bin and i keep the glass until i have enough to warrant a visit to the bottle bank.
i recycle anything that i can, we have a recycling bin and a normal bin and i keep the glass until i have enough to warrant a visit to the bottle bank.
They really should give us a 3rd bin in Ireland for glass.. Our compost bins should be on the way soon.. Man! my back garden will be full of bins
Quick question from UK.. do you pay for your general rubbish bins to be taken away? Over here we have to buy bin tags if you want your bin collect (general only,not recycling) so you only pay for what you throw out
They really should give us a 3rd bin in Ireland for glass.. Our compost bins should be on the way soon.. Man! my back garden will be full of bins
Quick question from UK.. do you pay for your general rubbish bins to be taken away? Over here we have to buy bin tags if you want your bin collect (general only,not recycling) so you only pay for what you throw out
i keep threatening to start a compost heap in my back garden.
i don't buy bin tags, i pay a yearly fee for my general bin, recycling one free.
that service is available here (well you buy a bag, they stopped the tag thing as too many were being lost/stolen) but you have to pay for recyling bags aswell as general rubbish bags.
They really should give us a 3rd bin in Ireland for glass.. Our compost bins should be on the way soon.. Man! my back garden will be full of bins
Quick question from UK.. do you pay for your general rubbish bins to be taken away? Over here we have to buy bin tags if you want your bin collect (general only,not recycling) so you only pay for what you throw out I don't pay anything for my bins to be collected, apart from my council tax so presume the refuse collections are included within that :searchme:
I refuse to keep our bins in our back garden - in the summer, the stench from the bins because of alternate collections is disgusting and the maggots from the compost bin are a health hazard - I refuse to allow my kids to play in a garden with maggots rolling around everywhere :sick:
yes i recycle and it is bin day today, so it is all out on the path waiting!!
we have 2 baskets for paper, plastic and tins(collected 2 weekly) i box for glass but they will only take it if the lid is in correctly (collected 4 weekly) and we have 1 small green wheelie bin for all general rubbish, but you can only fit 2 bin bags in it!! so i normally have about 4 more piled up by the side!!!
crazygirl
08-11-2006, 10:59
well we have a gray bin for general waste and 2 blue boxes 1 for paper and the other for glass/cans i get a collection fortnightly which is a complete joke!
i take my cardboard and plastic bottles to the recycling centre
I don't pay anything for my bins to be collected, apart from my council tax so presume the refuse collections are included within that :searchme:
Yeah we can either pay a yearly fee to collect rubbish or you can pay as you leave (€7.50). It is handy for people living alone to pay this way as the bin could take 6 -8 weeks to fill up so they don't have to pay yearly fee. It is only in certain area (you have to pay for a bin in advance too) and free to anyone on social welfare benefits
samantha nixon
08-11-2006, 18:20
we have black bin bags for normal stuff and orange for recycling and mum tries to but we usualy forget and just put it in the black ones as its easier
crazygirl
08-11-2006, 19:35
we have our wheelie bin and were allowed 1 black bag! the council are not allowed to take anymore and that's fortnightly
yes i recycle Bottles,cans and glass put then into the recycling bank then the council takes it away every 4 weeks depending on how quick they fill up
also have an organic bin which is for things like veg waste,magazines papers etc which gets Emtied every 2 weeks but the only thing i hate about that is having to Buy Organic paper Binliners every so often
But if it helps the enviroment then i'm all for it
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